Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has declared the end of Islamic State in an address broadcast live on state TV.

A senior commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Major General Qassem Soleimani, also declared the end of Islamic State in a message sent to the country's supreme leader which was published on Sepah News, the news site of the Guards.

Mr Rouhani's announcement has been made today.

Videos and pictures of Soleimani, who commands the Quds Force, the branch of the Guards responsible for operations outside of Iran's borders at frontline positions in battlesagainst Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, have been posted frequently by Iranian media in recent years.

Last week, Iranian media published pictures of Soleimani at Albu Kamal in eastern Syria, a town which he said was the last territory retaken from Islamic State control in the region.

The Iranian President has declared the end of Islamic State (file photo) (Image: Getty)

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani declared the end of IS today (file photo) (Image: REUTERS)

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The Revolutionary Guards, Iran's most powerful military force which also oversees an economic empire worth billions of dollars, has been fighting in support of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and the central government in Baghdad for many years.

More than a thousand members of the Guards, including senior commanders, have been killed in Syria and Iraq.

Mirror Online reported at the weekend how Syrian government forces and militia fighters had bombarded key ISIS locations near the Iraq border.